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Stagnation of a “Miracle”:Botswana’s Governance Record Revisited [PDF]

Botswana has been dubbed an “African miracle.” The country has been praised not only for maintaining a multiparty system and high growth rates since independence but also for its good governance record.
Christian von Soest
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Pursuing Leadership on One's Own Terms: A Human Resource Development Perspective on Leadership Aspiration, Identity, and Organizational Influence

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Leadership aspiration is not simply a product of ambition or capability, but a dynamic, context‐sensitive phenomenon shaped by how individuals understand leadership and whether pursuing it feels feasible, meaningful, and sustainable. Using phenomenographic analysis of semi‐structured interviews with 23 employees and drawing on Leadership ...
Bishakha Mazumdar, Stephanie Gilbert, Megan M. Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' Soil–Water Management Practices and Perspectives on Soil Salinization in Mirab Abaya District, Gamo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Soil salinization is a critical threat, impacting 20% of the world's irrigated lands and jeopardizing food security. In Ethiopia's Mirab Abaya district of the Gamo Zone, unsustainable irrigation methods exacerbate this issue. This paper examines local farmers' soil–water management systems and their awareness of salinization, aiming to educate
Oloba Jobe, Fanuel Laekemariam, Dereje Tsegaye, Demelash Wendemeneh   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A neoclassical perspective on Switzerland’s 1990s stagnation [PDF]

, 2018
We study Switzerland’s 1990s growth weakness through the lens of the business cycle accounting framework by Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2007). Our main result is that weak productivity growth cannot account for the experienced stagnation.
Stucki, Yannic, Thomet, Jacqueline
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A Tale of Two Transitions: Mobility Dynamics in China and Russia After Central Planning

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines intergenerational mobility in China and Russia during their transitions from central planning to market systems. We consider mobility as movement, measured as changes in status between parents and children. We provide estimates of two key mobility measures: overall mobility, which captures total intergenerational movement ...
Kristina Butaeva, Lian Chen, Steven N. Durlauf, Albert F. Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The German Soil Systematics and the Rationale Behind Its Revision

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The German Soil Systematics is a pedogenetic classification based on the morphological expressions of pedogenic processes and has been developed over several stages since 1952. The system has successfully been in use for soil classification and soil survey for almost 70 years.
Einar Eberhardt, Karl Stahr, Peter Schad, Alexander Gröngröft   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutional Fragility and E‐Business Adoption: A Study of SMEs in a Conflict‐Affected Economy

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines e‐business adoption among SMEs in Yemen, a conflict‐affected and institutionally fragile economy. Drawing on a mixed‐methods design, it combines Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS‐SEM) with qualitative interviews to analyse how war and firm size moderate the effects of key adoption drivers and barriers.
Ahmed Abdullah, Ahmed Almoraish, Abdul‐Fatahi Abdulai, Ahmad Samed Al‐Adwan, Wail Alhakimi, Ziad Abdelmoety   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unlocking Value Co‐Creation in IoT Platforms: Insights From a Collaborative Manufacturing Case

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines value co‐creation in IoT platform ecosystems through a case study of the collaborative manufacturing platform E‐LINK. We explore the evolution of platform data capabilities, user interactions, value creation, and the mechanisms that connect them.
Huayao Zhang, Junjie Wu, George Lodorfos, Mingyao Sun, Mickaël Naulleau   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Chez Said" à Turin, un exotisme de proximité

, 2005
Since the nineties the quarter of Porta Palazzo in Turin undergoes a process of gentrification. Starting from two observations the author connects this urban process with some trade exchanges between a Berber shopkeeper of Moroccan nationality and his ...
Semi, Giovanni, Giovanni Semi
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